World SME ecosystem: India's largest MSME directory

The author, Dr. Sharon T. Freeman, has worked with startups in over 100 countries and has started up businesses as an entrepreneur in Hong Kong and in the U.S. Drawing on extensive desk research, her firsthand entrepreneurial experience, and on the advice of startup ecosystems experts around the world, this book reveals what are considered to be the 10 MAIN PILLARS of the U.S. ecosystem of startup and SME support and of their associated 33 sub-pillars. This book will illuminate how the American ecosystem works and how the parts of the system work together. It’s underscored throughout this book that “just as the complex biological system of soil, water, sunlight, flora, and fauna in a rainforest allows individual plants to flourish, so the ecosystem for entrepreneurs is essential to their success. Healthy ecosystems allow talent, information, and resources to flow quickly to entrepreneurs as they need it.”